Search Result for "affricate_consonant":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy');
[syn: affricate, affricate consonant, affricative]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

affricate consonant
    n 1: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a
         fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair'
         and `j' in `joy') [syn: affricate, affricate consonant,
         affricative]